There is one thing that can really bring a model railway alive and that is little people to populate your little world! The people arn't alive of course but somehow they bring a vibrancy to your layout. I've lacked HO scale people, i have a box of OO scale people but they just look too large on Eskalon. The people i have got are a budget set (very cheap actually) and a bit crude but a perfect way to build the population.